Can an LVN enter 1st semester of an RN program?

I am an LVN graduate of February 2007 and passed my boards in June 2007. Since then, I have not worked as an LVN. I did however work for one month from March to April 2009 in a LTC facility and did not like the job due to various reasons. This made me re-think if Im even really called to do nursing all together. I currently work as a dietary tech in an acute hospital and have been for the pass 9 years. I was able to obtain a partial scholarship from the hospital to pursue my LVN degree, however, I would have a 3 year contract to work for the hospital. Since then, I thought I would be able to work at the hospital as an LVN, but now they have eliminated all the LVN positions in the hospital and some were even laid off. Now, I feel stuck having to wait till February 2010 till my contract ends. I feel down that I have no really experience and afraid that I have most of my skills as a nurse. I don't even no what to do. Evertime I search for jobs, they want experience. I thought about going for my RN, since maybe I didn't like working at the LTC, I would have better options like work in surgery. Since I haven't been using my skills for 3 years, I wanted to enter the RN program in solano community college in suisun, ca. 1st semester. However I was told that since I have an LVN license that legally they can't have me enter 1st semester even though i haven't been using my skills for 3 years and that I would have to do the lvn to rn bridge. So right now I feel lost, confused, and sad about this whole situation. I'm still having to pay off $20,000 in tuition, not using my skills as a nurse, and feel stuck being in dietary for so long. I don't know where to start. Please help. Any advice would be great. Just need to feel encouraged.